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Sepia photograph of the recently constructed road from El Arish to Mission Beach (Clump Point). This Public Estates Improvement (P.E.I.) road was officially opened in July 1936. Tree stumps and logs lie beside the road. A small utility truck is parked along the track

Photograph of the QCWA hall, located on Plumb Street, Tully. The Tully Branch of the CWA (QCWA) was formed in 1926. They applied for land on Plumb Street for rest room purposes in 1927 and the hall was built in 1929 at a cost of £750

Photo taken in the early 1930s showing a number of "boaties" on the "Red Wing", a boat owned by Fred (Nobby) Whiting

Photograph of “Red Wing”, a pleasure boat owned by Whitings, taken in the 1930s

Photograph of “Sea Mist”, a pleasure boat owned by Whitings, taken in the 1930s on the southern bank of the Hull River mouth

Photograph of “Tomboy”, the first of Jim Butler’s boats. Jim and Margaret Butler started a shipping service from Brammo Bay, Dunk Island, to the Hull River. When this boat became too small they bought the “Silver Quay”

Black and white photograph of Tully Post Office on the corner of Butler and Bryant Streets. This building housed the post office between 1930 and 1958. The National Bank can be seen to the left

Sepia original photograph of Victoria Street, Cardwell, looking north. The Marine Hotel is on the left. The tops of the three coconut palms on the foreshore were shot off in 1942 by service personnel who were in Cardwell to salvage a Hudson Bomber that crashed in the Hinchinbrook Channel

Photograph of a group on Bedarra Island in 1931. At this time sugar workers would make semi-permanent camps on the island during the off season of the cane industry. A radio is on a table is in the middle of the scene